On February 26, 2012, unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old wannabe...
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Read moreBy Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Blues legend Buddy Guy can be brilliant or on...
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Read moreOnce upon a time, before the early 1970s, there were even fewer Black faces in television news than...
Read moreBy Myrle B. Cooper Guest Commentator At St. Cloud State University (SCSU), a PR firm is charging...
Read moreMPD takes possession of Civilian Review Authority On the international scene last year, the Arab Spring brought an offensive...
Read moreIt was an August afternoon and the sun was blazing. I was a penniless seven-year-old, and I decided I was...
Read moreThe headline of the March 7, 2012 Star Tribune story was very confusing: “Senator says Target Center is...
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Read moreIt’s been awhile since this columnist has taken a look at entities in our community that are a...
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Read moreMovies, Media & More Dwight Hobbes You really have to wonder whether Black women are ever going to...
Read moreRybak administration and Civil Rights Department blindsided One wonders how long it took the Rybak administration to...
Read moreIt’s sad that blues immortal Etta James responded as she did to Beyoncé Knowles’ serenading President Barack Obama...
Read moreBy Karen Franklin Guest Columnist In Minnesota, African American children have the highest rates of involvement in...
Read moreWhen Viola Davis lost the Oscar for best actress portraying an African American maid in Katherine Stockett’s The...
Read moreCleo Manago is despised by some in the LGBTQ community. Descriptors like “homo demagogue,” contrarian, separatist, and anti-White...
Read moreBy Karen Franklin Guest Commentator Teens in foster care are first and foremost teenagers. As...
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